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Mopsy

//ˈmɒpsi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A nickname for a person with a mop of hair.
  2. 2
    A given name for a pet animal; stereotypically a shaggy animal looking somewhat like a mop head; frequently a shaggy dog.
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of moppet.
  2. 2
    A slatternly, untidy woman. obsolete

    "rich hande-kercheefes, in their handes, and sometymes laied acrosse over their shoulders and neckes, borrowed for the moste parte of their pretie Mopsies and loovyng Bessies for bussyng them in the darcke"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From mop + -sy. From mopsy, from mop. Compare moppet.

Etymology 2

From mop + -sy.

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